Affiliate Faculty

Our Center affiliates are faculty whose academic appointments reside entirely in other campus units but who devote at least 25 percent of their research, teaching and/or service to the study of Latin America and the Caribbean and/or Latinxs in the United States. The dynamism of the Center and the quality of our programs are enriched by the participation of our affiliates.

Affiliate Faculty members chair and serve on MALAS thesis committees and on various fellowship and grant competition selection committees. They also initiate many of the Center’s research programs, events, and other activities. The courses taught by Affiliate Faculty (containing 25 percent or more Latin American or Latinx Studies content) are advertised in our Course Guide, and form the basis for the Center’s Minor, Undergraduate and Graduate Certificate, and MALAS programs. 

Interested in becoming a Center affiliate?

UF faculty members seeking to become Center affiliates can complete the Affiliate Status Application Form.

Find a Center affiliate

To search for a faculty member click on their home department below. If you know the name of the faculty, you can type Control+F (Command+F on a Mac) and type their name to find their information.

African Studies

Renata Serra
  • Research Interest: African development; political economy; economic reforms and aid; gender issues and women’s empowerment; agricultural development and cotton sectors; social capital and collective action; microfinance
  • Geographic Expertise: Francophone West Africa, Mali

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Agricultural Education and Communication

John M. Diaz
  • Research Interest: Behavior change | Cultural competency | Community development
  • Geographic Expertise: Central America, South America and Cuba
Pablo Lamiño Jaramillo
  • Research Interest: Indigenous groups | Migration intentions | Leadership | Agricultural perception
  • Geographic Expertise: Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
Paul Monaghan
  • Research Interest: Community-based social marketing | Latino studies
  • Geographic Expertise: Haiti
Grady Roberts
  • Research Interest: Teaching and learning | Experiential learning | Study abroad | Capacity building | Agricultural development
  • Geographic Expertise: Costa Rica, Trinidad & Tobago, Ecuador, Belize, Haiti

 

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Agricultural & Biological Engineering

Clyde Fraisse
  • Research Interest: Climate-based agricultural risk management applications | Crop growth modeling
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil
Rafael Muñoz-Carpena
  • Research Interest: Hydrology | Water quality
  • Geographic Expertise: Central and South America

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Agronomy

Lynn Sollenberger
  • Research Interest: Forage plants | Grazing livestock
  • Geographic Expertise: Jamaica, Mexico
S. Luke Flory
  • Research Interest: Invasive plant management
  • Geographic Expertise: Cuba, Galapagos

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Anthropology

George Aaron Broadwell
  • Research Interest: Native American languages
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico, Mesoamerica
Daniel Contreras
  • Research Interest: Archaeology | Geoarchaeology
  • Geographic Expertise: Central Andes
Susan deFrance
  • Research Interest: Zooarchaeology
  • Geographic Expertise: Peru, Bolivia, Caribbean
Susan Gillespie
  • Research Interest: Archaeology | Ethnohistory | Iconography
  • Geographic Expertise: Mesoamerica
Clarence Gravlee
  • Research Interest: Ethnic disparities in health | Cultural dimensions of psychosocial stress
  • Geographic Expertise: Puerto Rico
Michael Heckenberger
  • Research Interest: Archeology of non-western cultures of the humid tropics | Historical anthropology
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil
Richard Kernaghan
  • Research Interest: Violence, rights and political community
  • Geographic Expertise: Peru
Augusto Oyuela-Caycedo
  • Research Interest: Archaeology | Historical ecology
  • Geographic Expertise: Andes, Amazonia
Gabriel Prieto
  • Research Interest: Maritime adaptations in ancient communities | ritualized human violence in ancient times
  • Geographic Expertise: Peru
Whittaker Schroder
  • Research Interest: Landscape archaeology, historical and political ecology, sociopolitical organization, resilience and sustainability, household archaeology, remote sensing, cultural heritage, ceramics, Archaeology of the Americas 
  • Geographic Expertise: Mesoamerica

 

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Architecture

Martha Kohen
  • Research Interest: Urban planning
  • Geographic Expertise: South America 
Alfonso Perez-Mendez
  • Research Interest: Design
  • Geographic Expertise: Cuba, Caribbean
Luis Alfonso Mejia Puig
  • Research Interest: Design process, design education, digital media tools, psychometric and physiological tools
  • Geographic Expertise: Colombia
Karla Saldaña Ochoa
  • Research Interest: Human-centric AI in architectural practice
  • Geographic Expertise: Worldwide

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Art and Art History

Derek Burdette
  • Research Interest: Pre-Columbian and colonial art | Art and imperialism | Art and visual culture of Mexico
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico (Viceroyalty of New Spain), general
Jesús Fuenmayor
  • Research Interest: Modern and conteporary art | Latin American art | American and European art | Collections and curating 
  • Geographic Expertise: Ecuador, Venezuela
Porchia Moore
  • Research Interest: Inclusive Praxis in Cultural Heritage Spaces, Cultural Heritage Informatics, 21st Century praxis in GLAMr (Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums, repositories), Critical Heritage Studies, Cross-Pollination/Convergence Issues in Libraries, Archives, Museums, Greenspaces, Muse Tech + Muse Social, Liberatory Praxis and Black Radical Traditions in Museums/Cultural Heritage
Heidi C. Powell
  • Research Interest: Art and memory | Pedagogy in arts education | Medicine and arts integration | Indigenous identities | Learning environments in the arts | Art cultures | Arts-based research
  • Geographic Expertise: Guatemala, General
Maria Rogal
  • Research Interest: Design | Design thinking | Participatory design | Development | Intercultural communications
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico, General
Maya Stanfield-Mazzi
  • Research Interest: Pre-Columbian and colonial art | Indigenous arts of the Americas | Global Baroque art
  • Geographic Expertise: Andes, Mexico, General
Sergio Vega
  • Research Interest: Visual | Historical and cultural studies | Photography
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil

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Biology

Karen Bjorndal
  • Research Interest: Biology of sea turtles
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean, General
Ana V. Longo
  • Research Interest: Amphibian disease ecology and conservation | Microbial ecology
  • Geographic Expertise: Latin America, Caribbean, Puerto Rico
José Miguel Ponciano
  • Research Interest: Evolution of behavior, tropical avian ecology, the application of stochastic processes in Ecology, Population Genetics and Evolution, Wildlife Management, Conservation Biology and Fisheries, Epidemiological modeling, Microbial Community Ecology, Population Genetics and Phylogenetics
  • Geographic Expertise: Peruvian Amazon
Francis E. Putz
  • Research Interest: Ecology
  • Geographic Expertise: South America
Claudia Romero
  • Research Interest: Tropical conservation
  • Geographic Expertise: South America
Marta L. Wayne
  • Research Interest: Maintenance of genetic variation, host-parasite coevolution, the evolution of virulence, virus evolution, sexual conflict, and dosage compensation
  • Geographic Expertise: the Americas

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Center for Gender, Sexualities, and Women's Studies Research

Manoucheka Celeste
  • Research Interest: Immigration | Media and cultural studies | Women of color feminist theory | African Diaspora
  • Geographic Expertise: Haiti, Caribbean
Jillian Hernandez
  • Research Interest: Latinx Gender, Sexualities, Embodiment, Visual Art, Performance, Cultural Production, and Critical Girlhood/Youth Studies | Black/Latinx/Afro-Latinx ethno-racial formation and relations in the U.S.
  • Geographic Expertise: U.S./Miami, Florida

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Chemistry

Valeria Kleiman
  • Research Interest: Energy transfer
  • Geographic Expertise: Argentina

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Civil & Coastal Engineering

David O. Prevatt
  • Research Interest: Structural engineering | Wind engineering and structural load paths | Tornado and hurricane damage mitigation | Wind hazard-resilient communities
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean, CARICOM, Trinidad and Tobago
Arnoldo Valle-Levinson
  • Research Interest: Physical oceanography | Estuary-ocean exchange | Estuarine and coastal hydrodynamics
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico, Chile

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Counseling & Wellness Center

Zully A. Rivera-Ramos
  • Research Interest: Gender diversity | Sexual orientation and/or Latinx identities
  • Geographic Expertise: Latinx individuals in the U.S. and Puerto Rico

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Economics

Germán Bet
  • Research Interest: Industrial organization
  • Geographic Expertise: Argentina
Elias Dinopoulos
  • Research Interest: International economics | Economic development
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Javier D. Donna
  • Research Interest: Industrial Organization, Applied Microeconomics, Antitrust & Competition Policy, Public Economics
  • Geographic Expertise: Latin America
Cecilia Peluffo
  • Research Interest: Development economics
  • Geographic Expertise: South America
Eugenio Rojas
  • Research Interest: International macroeconomics | Financial crises | Quantitative macroeconomics
  • Geographic Expertise: Latin America
Hector Sandoval
  • Research Interest: Social interactions | Education | Development economics | Program evaluation
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico

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Education

Frank Fernandez
  • Research Interest: Educational equity and policy issues
  • Geographic Expertise: United States, Latino Studies
Mark B. Pacheco
  • Research Interest: Bilingual education | ESL language and literacy development
  • Geographic Expertise: Latino Studies

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English

Laura Gonzales
  • Research Interests: Language diversity | Rhetoric | Technical communication | Community engagement
  • Geographic Expertise: Land rematriation
Tace Hedrick
  • Research Interest: Chicana/o and Latina/o studies | Feminist theory | Feminist art history
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Leah Reade Rosenberg
  • Research Interest: Anglophone Caribbean studies | Postcolonial studies | Cultural studies
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean
Raúl Sánchez
  • Research Interest: Writing/composition studies | Rhetorical theory | Decolonial theory | Cultural studies | Literary theory
  • Geographic Expertise: General, U.S.-Latinx Communities

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Entomology and Nematology

Marc Branham
  • Research Interest: Evolution of sexual communication in fireflies
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean, Jamaica
James Cuda
  • Research Interest: Biological control of invasive weeds
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil

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Environmental Engineering Sciences

David Kaplan
  • Research Interest: Hydrologic and ecological models | Ecological restoration | Saltwater intrusion
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil, Costa Rica

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Environmental & Global Health

José Félix Colón Burgos
  • Research Interest: Medical Anthropology | Community Programs | Drug abuse | Drug addiction | Global Health | HIV Prevention | Health disparities and Social determinants of health | Innovative Public Behavioral Health Intervention Models | Program evaluation | Qualitative Research
  • Geographic Expertise: Florida, Puerto Rico
Anthony Maurelli
  • Research Interest: Bacterial Pathogenesis | Bacterial Genetics | Infectious Disease Surveillance
  • Geographic Expertise: Haiti

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Environmental Horticulture

Wagner A. Vendrame
  • Research Interests: Ornamental Micropropagation and Cryopreservation, Orchids, Microgravity
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil, South and Central America

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European Studies

Armin Langer
  • Research Interest: Migration, identity politics and populism in Europe and the US
  • Geographic Expertise: Europe, Jewish diaspora

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Family Youth and Community Sciences

 
Jennifer A. Jones
  • Research Interest: Nonprofit Management | Nonprofit Leadership | Philanthropy | Fundraising | Constructive Developmental Theory | Qualitative Research
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Jorge H. Ruiz Menjivar
  • Research Interest: The study of household financial decision-making and the measurement of financial constructs such as financial risk tolerance, economic well-being, financial socialization and knowledge, using modern psychometric theory | The investigation of topics related to financial and consumer decision-making in Latin America
  • Geographic Expertise: El Salvador, Costa Rica, Ecuador 
Marilyn Swisher
  • Research Interest: Participatory research | Sustainable agriculture
  • Geographic Expertise: Central America, Caribbean

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Finance, Insurance and Real Estate

Andy Naranjo
  • Research Interest: International finance and capital markets | International asset pricing
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Brian Gendreau
  • Research Interest: Emerging markets finance | International asset pricing
  • Geographic Expertise: General

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Florida Museum of Natural History

Kitty Emery
  • Research Interest: Environmental Archaeology
  • Geographic Expertise: Mesoamerica
William F. Keegan
  • Research Interest: Archaeology | Economic and ecological anthropology | Horticultural societies
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean
Bruce MacFadden
  • Research Interest: Vertebrate paleontology
  • Geographic Expertise: Bolivia
Lucas C. Majure
  • Research Interest: Plant systematics
  • Geographic Expertise: SE & SW US, Caribbean
Jacqueline Miller
  • Research Interest: Systemics and taxonomy of Lepidoptera
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico, Caribbean
Max Nickerson
  • Research Interest: Systematics and ecology of amphibians and reptiles
  • Geographic Expertise: General - North, Central and South America
Scott K. Robinson
  • Research Interest: Ecology and Conservation of birds
  • Geographic Expertise: Amazonia and Andes, especially Peru, Colombia, and Ecuador, but also more generally in Latin America.

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Food and Resource Economics

Charles Adams
  • Research Interest: Marine economics
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Trent Blare
  • Research Interest: Small-scale growers | Agro-economics | Inclusive agricultural supply chains
  • Geographic Expertise: Peru, Mexico
Edward Evans
  • Research Interest: International trade policy | Agro-economics
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean
William Messina
  • Research Interest: International trade
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean
Charles Moss
  • Research Interest: Agricultural finance | Agricultural policy | Quantitative methods
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico
Conner Mullally
  • Research Interest: Development economics | Impact evaluation
  • Geographic Expertise: Peru, Uruguay, Nicaragua
Gülcan Önel
  • Research Interests: Agricultural Policy | Farm Labor | Migration
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico, Haiti

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Food Science and Human Nutrition

JEANETTE ANDRADE
  • Research Interests: Nutrition education and the impact food has on adults with chronic renal disease
  • Geographic Expertise: Ecuador and Mexico
Juan E. Andrade Laborde
  • Research Interest: Food fortification | Micronutrient deficiencies | Low-cost sensors | Bioactives for food aid | Protein quality 
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, Ecuador

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Forest Resources and Conservation

Grenville Barnes
  • Research Interest: Land tenure | Cadastral and land information systems | GIS
  • Geographic Expertise: Central and South America, Caribbean
Donald C. Behringer
  • Research Interest: Marine ecology | Disease ecology | Crustacean biology | Fishery ecology | Invasion ecology
  • Geographic Expertise: Cuba (lead study abroad course), Mexico, and many other countries bordering the Caribbean Sea and South Atlantic
Stephanie Bohlman
  • Research Interest: Forest ecology
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazilian Amazon, Panama
Eben N. Broadbent
  • Research Interest: Tropical forest ecology | Conservation biology | Ecosystem ecology | Geospatial analyses and technology
  • Geographic Expertise: Costa Rica, Bolivia, Brazilian Amazon
 Douglas Carter
  • Research Interest: Forest economics and management
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Mysha Clarke
  • Research Interest: Human dimensions of natural resources | Invasive species management | Forest management | Environmental conservation
  • Geographic Expertise: General
P.K.R. Nair
  • Research Interest: Agroforestry | International forestry
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Denis Ribeiro do Valle
  • Research Interest: Ecological statistics | Environmental health
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil

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Geography

Michael Binford
  • Research Interest: GIS and RS applications in environmental systems | Landscape dynamics
  • Geographic Expertise: South America
Sadie Ryan
  • Research Interest: Disease ecology | Tropical conservation | Human-wildlife interface
  • Geographic Expertise: Ecuador
Cynthia Simmons
  • Research Interest: Economic development and environmental policy
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil, Amazonia
Jane Southworth
  • Research Interest: Climate change | Remote sensing | Land use | Land cover change
  • Geographic Expertise: Honduras, Guatemala
Corene Matyas
  • Research Interest: Climatology | Hurricanes | Climate change
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean

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Geological Sciences

Mark Brenner
  • Research Interest: Limnology | Paleolimnology
  • Geographic Expertise: Mesoamerica, Caribbean

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Health & Human Performance

MILDRED MALDONADO-MOLINA
  • Research Interest: Reducing health disparities in alcohol use and alcohol-related consequences | Improving the health of minority children and adolescents | Reducing risk factors associated with drug use and violence | Understanding the role of acculturation among Latinx families | Examining the role of context (e.g. neighborhood, access to alcohol, high poverty) on alcohol-related outcomes among urban youth.
  • Geographic Expertise: Puerto Rico

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History

Fernanda Bretones Lane
  • Research Interest: Slavery | African Diaspora in Latin America | Social and Political history
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean, Cuba, Atlantic World
Max Deardorff
  • Research Interest: Race | Identity | Ethnohistory | Popular politics | Law
  • Geographic Expertise: Northern Andes, Colombia, Spain
Lillian Guerra
  • Research Interest: Caribbean diasporas | Caribbean history
  • Geographic Expertise: 20th Century Cuba, Puerto Rico
Philip Janzen
  • Research Interest: African Diaspora | Race | Migration | Intellectual History
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean, West and Central Africa
Heather A. Vrana
  • Research Interest: Social movements | Student movements | Oral history | Memory | Disability history
  • Geographic Expertise: Central America, Mexico

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Horticultural Sciences

Jonathan Crane
  • Research Interest: Tropical fruits
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean, Mexico, Costa Rica
Steven A. Sargent
  • Research Interest: Postharvest physiology and technology of fresh fruits and vegetables
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil, Latin America, East/Southern Africa

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IFAS International Programs

Kathleen M. Colverson
  • Research Interest: Gender and agricultural systems | Participatory methodologies and approaches | Smallholder farming systems
  • Geographic Expertise: Central and South America, East Africa and Southeast Asia
Thomas Ruppert
  • Research Interest: Environmental law
  • Geographic Expertise: Costa Rica

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Jewish Studies

Katalin Rac
  • Research Interest: History of Oriental scholarship in Europe, Jewish studies, history of travel to the Middle East, nationalism and empires
  • Geographic Expertise: Americas, Europe

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Landscape Architecture

Maria C. Gurucharri
  • Research Interest: Comprehensive problem-solving in natural systems and urban landscapes
  • Geographic Expertise: Central America

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Languages, Literatures, and Cultures: Haitian Creole

Benjamin Hebblethwaite
  • Research Interest: Haitian Creole instruction and linguistics
  • Geographic Expertise: Haiti

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Latin American and Caribbean Collection

Margarita Vargas-Betancourt
  • Research Interest: Colonial Latin American history | Latin American and Caribbean archives | Diversity
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean, Mexico

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Law

Thomas T. Ankersen
  • Research Interest: Environmental law | Water law | Protection of biological diversity
  • Geographic Expertise: Central America
Berta Hernández-Truyol
  • Research Interest: International human rights | Issues of gender/race and Latinas/os in the law
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Joan Flocks
  • Research Interest: Agricultural labor | Child labor
  • Geographic Expertise: Latino Studies
Pedro Malavet
  • Research Interest: Comparative law | Critical race theory | LatCrit theory
  • Geographic Expertise: Puerto Rico, Latino Studies
Timothy McLendon
  • Research Interest: Environmental law
  • Geographic Expertise: Haiti, Brazil
Jon Mills
  • Research Interest: Florida constitutional law | Environmental law | Legislative drafting
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil

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Linguistics

James Essegbey
  • Research Interest: Descriptive, documentary and theoretical linguistics | Creole studies
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean

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Media Production, Management, and Technology

Michael Leslie
  • Research Interest: Impact of media content on society from a cross-cultural perspective
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico, Brazil
Churchill Roberts
  • Research Interest: Documentary film | International telecommunication | Social impact of the mass media
  • Geographic Expertise: Cuba, Panama

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Medicine: Department of Emergency Medicine

Elizabeth L. DeVos
  • Research Interest: Emergency medicine in low- and middle-income countries, global health and emergency care, medical education
  • Geographic Expertise: Ethiopia, Rwanda

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Medicine: Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine

Norman L. Beatty
  • Research Interest: Chagas disease, HIV, Health outcomes research, Kissing bug (triatomine) research, Molecular epidemiology, tropical disease, Trypanosoma cruzi infection
Michael Lauzardo
  • Research Interest: Tuberculosis | General pulmonary disease | Mycobacterial infections
  • Geographic Expertise: Haiti, Dominican Republic
Amy Y. Vittor
  • Research Interest: Field experimental methods for determining enzootic hosts | Human immunological and genetic susceptibility to alphaviruses | Epidemiology of eastern equine encephalitis | Venezuelan equine encephalitis in Panama
  • Geographic Expertise: Panama, Peruvian Amazon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Asia

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Music

Kenneth Broadway
  • Research Interest: Percussion
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean
Silvio Dos Santos
  • Research Interest: Music criticism and analysis
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil
Jose V. Ruiz-Resto
  • Research Interest: Music Production and Ethnomusicology concerning Latin Jazz and Popular Music Traditions | Trends of Contemporary Latin & Afro-Latin Music Industry
  • Geographic Expertise: Puerto Rico, Cuba, Guatemala, Brazil, Spain
Kristen Stoner
  • Research Interest: Popular and classical flute of Latin America
  • Geographic Expertise: Peru, Brazil, Argentina

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Natural Resources and Environment

Ignacio Porzecanski
  • Research Interest: Agronomy and Environmental Sciences
  • Geographic Expertise: Latin America, Europe

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Plant Pathology

Karen Garrett
  • Research Interest: Plant disease epidemics and management
  • Geographic Expertise: Andes, the Caribbean region
Samuel Martins
  • Research Interest: Plant Bacteriology, Biocontrol of Plant Diseases, Microbiome
  • Geographic Expertise: Tropical countries

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Political Science

Leslie E. Anderson
  • Research Interest: Popular politics and citizen empowerment | Development of democracy
  • Geographic Expertise: Central America, Argentina
Andrew Janusz
  • Research Interest: Racial identity | Voting behavior | Political representation
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil
Cristian Pérez Muñoz
  • Research Interest: Normative political theory and public policy
  • Geographic Expertise: South Cone
Juliana Restrepo Sanin
  • Research Interest: Gender and politics in Latin America | Violence against women in politics | Access to justice
  • Geographic Expertise: Bolivia, Colombia, Mexico, Chile

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Psychology

Roberto L. Abreu
  • Research Interests: Latinx cultural values and beliefs and psychological well-being; Sexual and gender diversity; family and community acceptance of Latinx sexual and gender diverse people; impact of sociopolitical climate on Latinx sexual and gender diverse people; Latinx transgender immigrants
  • Geographic Expertise: Caribbean, Latinx communities in the United States, General
Corina Jimenez-Gomez
  • Research Interests: Choice, behavioral persistence and reinforcement processes, the use of technology in ABA settings, caregiver and staff coaching, and cultural responsiveness
  • Geographic Expertise: Latinx communities in the United States, General

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Religion

Anna L. Peterson
  • Research Interest: Christianity in Latin America | Social ethics | Environmental ethics
  • Geographic Expertise: Central America
Robin Wright
  • Research Interest: Indigenous religions | Ethnohistory | Indian policy
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil

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Sociology

Stephen Perz
  • Research Interest: Collaborative practice | Environmental conservation | Sustainable development | Complex systems | Resilience | Infrastructure | Population
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia
Barbara A. Zsembik
  • Research Interest: Migration and health | Family violence among Dominicans and Haitians
  • Geographic Expertise: General

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Soil and Water Science

Pedro A. Sanchez
  • Research Interest: Conservation and sustainable development | Tropical soils | Food production and hunger reduction
  • Geographic Expertise: Latin America, Southeast Asia, Africa

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Spanish and Portuguese Studies

Jessi Aaron
  • Research Interest: Spanish linguistics
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico
Luis Álvarez-Castro
  • Research Interest: Nineteenth-century Spanish literature and culture; contemporary representations of that period in literature and film
  • Geographic Expertise: Spain, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Philippines
M. Elizabeth Ginway
  • Research Interest: Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Brazilian narrative
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil
Quinn McCoy Hansen
  • Research Interest: Portuguese linguistics, Luso-Brazilian civilization
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil
Emily Hind
  • Research Interest: Mexican literature | Mexican film | Mexican history and culture | Age studies and children's literature
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico
Victor Jordan
  • Research Interest: Spanish language instruction | Latin American culture and civilization
  • Geographic Expertise: Colombia
Antonio-Sajid López
  • Research Interest: Latin Americanist focusing primarily on 20th and 21st-century Hispanic theater | Particularly interested in plays where the audience becomes an integral part of theatrical fiction
  • Geographic Expertise: Latin America - General
Gillian Lord
  • Research Interest: Second language acquisition | L2 phonetics and phonology | Technology in language education
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico, Peru
Crystal Marull
  • Research Interests: Second language processing | Heritage language acquisition | Cognitive
    individual differences | Second language pedagogy | Distance/online learning pedagogy
  • Geographic Expertise: Argentina
Greg Moreland
  • Research Interest: Languages across the curriculum and for the professions
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico

Mariana Oliveira
  • Research Interest: Portuguese language modernist poetry | Tourism and Brazilian culture | Colonial Brazil
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil
Diego Pascual y Cabo
  • Research Interest: Heritage speaker bilingual development | Spanish in the US | Bilingualism
  • Geographic Expertise: United States
David Pharies
  • Research Interest: Romance historical linguistics
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Martín Sorbille
  • Research Interest: 19th century Spanish-American literature
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Paola Uparela
  • Research Interest: Colonial Latin American literatures and cultural studies | Gender, sexuality, and queer studies | Visual culture, race and biopolitics
  • Geographic Expertise: Colonial Transatlantic Latin America
Jorge Valdés Kroff
  • Research Interest: Psycholinguistics | Spanish-English code-switching | Spanish heritage speakers
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Jennifer Wooten
  • Research Interest: World Language Education | Spanish for Educators | Teacher Training
  • Geographic Expertise: General

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Spatial Ecology & Conservation (SPEC) Lab

Angélica M. Almeyda Zambrano
  • Research Interest: Human geography | Ecological anthropology | Human ecology | Political ecology | Tropical conservation and development | Land use and land cover change | Environmental change and water quality | Sustainability science
  • Geographic Expertise: Costa Rica, Peru, Brazil, Amazon

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Theatre and Dance

Joan Frosch
  • Research Interest: Dance ethnography | Choreography
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Tony Mata
  • Research Interest: Musical theater
  • Geographic Expertise: Latino studies
Colleen Rua
  • Research Interest: Latinx theatre|performing arts as sites of healing for displaced Latinx communities|Latinx representation in American Musical Theatre
  • Geographic Expertise: General, US-Latinx Communities, Puerto Rico 
Augusto Soledade
  • Research Interest: African diasporic dance | Afro-Brazilian dance and culture
  • Geographic Expertise: Brazil

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Veterinary Medicine

Klibs Galvão
  • Research Interest: Dairy cows, reproductive physiology & management | Dairy production medicine
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Jorge Hernandez
  • Research Interest: Epidemiology
  • Geographic Expertise: Mexico

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Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Miguel Acevedo
  • Research Interest: Quantitative ecology | Tropical ecology | Tropical diseases | Secondary forests | Conservation | Habitat prioritization
    Geographic Expertise: Puerto Rico, Caribbean
John Blake
  • Research Interest: Tropical ecology
  • Geographic Expertise: Ecuador, Amazon, Argentina
Lyn C. Branch
  • Research Interest: Conservation biology | Behavioral ecology | Landscape ecology
  • Geographic Expertise: Southern Cone
Robert Fletcher
  • Research Interest: Landscape and spatial ecology
  • Geographic Expertise: Ecuador
Susan K. Jacobson
  • Research Interest: Human dimensions of natural resource management | Environmental education
  • Geographic Expertise: General
Kathryn E. Sieving
  • Research Interest: Avian ecology and conservation
  • Geographic Expertise: General

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